bohemian style

out of all the different ways people can dress, people seem to catergorize me as boho. i guess i am boho but I always just sort of thought of myself as "me." i'm nto gonna change it but it does bother me the sterotypes people put on certain clothes!

 

I've heard the term "bohemian" before, but what exactley is bohemian style? Similar to the hippie fashion?

 

I have this really cute handbag, and I was in college and a guy came up to me and said "oooh thats a really bohemian bag you have there" I smiled at him and said 'thank you', and he gave me a dirty look and said "that wasn't a compliment"

*shugs* people are weird. but no matter what you're always going to be labeled as something so you might as well just smile and get on with your way they way you want to. who cares what anyone says about you? good bad or labeling?

peace and lovexx

 

What a jerk! I say if you don't like somebody's style you don't go out of your way to insult them. But yeah, as long as you're happy with yourself and your style you shouldn't care what anybody else thinks. :sunglasse

 

yeah it really bugs me that also in magazines like cosmogirl and seventeen, they have the fashion section, and there is always a put-together outfit labeled Boho Style and i'm like now what in the hell? first of all, the TOTALLY ripped us off after raging about the clothes so many years ago, and now you stole it from us and made it yours? gee,thanks!

 

Yeah, I find it a little funny and stupid that in the mags they will display some very expensive peasent shirts and call the style 'hippie-chic'. '
Hippie and 'chic'......sort of an oxymoron to me

 

I agree completely...but it does make me giggle how all of it is about 100 dollars more than you need to spend. You can find way cooler stuff at thrift shops.

 

yeah man i live at those places....the shit they put in those mags always is like $78 for a feckin skirt or something, and half the time its not even like hippie sorta style. i guess our only consolation is that we're always one step ahead.....

 

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See that's just it, we're not. I catch rich prep kids from wellington at my thrift store all the time, I always stare them out of the store. It pisses me off, they drive up in their audi's, wearing all this billabong abercrombie shit. I'm glad these people are trying to expand a little bit, but clothing is that last thing you expand upon. It's like I'll be looking for a jacket or something and they'll be racing me to get all the "good stuff". Lol, I was looking at some clothes and I picked up two over-shirts... I swear the kid ran to pick them up after I put them down. He passed them up before... but oohh, the hippy boy likes those clothes, they must be good. I hate it, going shopping is like a fucking gladiator match anymore.

 

god damn preps.....i've never experienced that in my thrift stores......just some poor people, old people,this one blind chick and me. well we thought of it first. lol. my dad told me that when he was a kid they didn't even have thrift stores, so really it was the hippies who thought of that whole jive. your neighbourhood prep kids are just copying you. so we are one step ahead.:H yeah really, gladiator match. thats how it is.

 

Exactly! People don't understand, why don't try to dress a certain way; we don't care to be fashionable. "Hippy," I believe, is a term for being yourself. You can't label one so called, "hippy," from the next. Thoose magazines really bug to put people who dress similar in one general sterotype!

 

I had a very similar experience last week. My friend and I wanted to ride bikes to a thrift store to just look around. (Neither one of us is very, "well-off.") The problem was her bike tires were flat and we didn't have a pump. My dad is an inventor and we have a bunch of weird stuff laying aorund, so we grabbed 2 of thoose razor scooters and, "scooted," all around town. The entire time we were in the thrift store we were using the word, "scoot," because we thought it was a funny word.

We barely noticed this family until later on: regular parents, 3 young girls, (probably some were friends,) and a girl about our age in an abecrombie sweatshirt. I spotted from a ways away, a tie-dye Jerry Garcia shirt and went running like mad! I had to squeeze by the 3 probably 13 yr-old girls, so I politely said, "Excuse me," and me and my friend got through. One of the girls said mockingly, "Excuse you!" I turned around for a second and kept walking only to hear one of her friends say, "She said excuse me." I guess the girl didn't hear.

Well, in the meantime the older abecrombie girl was kinda doing the same thing you were talking about, following me around to see what my finds were. I realized I didn't have enough money, (I told you I'm broke ) so I decided to come back some other time.

My friend and I walked out of the store and there were the 3 girls waiting for us. It seemed kinda weird. Being one not to cause trouble my friend and I kept to ourselves and jokingly asked one another where we should scoot to next. The girl who was so rude to me earlier said, "Oh you scoot girls you scoot,...." We thought she was humoring us, then she said, "You scoot the hell out of here!" We unfolded our scooters and started to ride off. We heard them say as we rode off, "Scoot out of here girls! Thoose scooter things are SO over! And look at thoose outfits! Ew!"

Ignorant fools,....guess they can't stand a little individuality.

 

people suck.

 

you're my hero, freedbypeace!! you sound like a cool chick.

 

Thanx! wow I'm blushing. :&

 

nightmare where do you live?

 

Your posts make me want to vomit. Infact, I think I'll go and mix up some mustard and milk to make it easier. Hang on........

So much better.
Please, since when was there a set income level that determined who could and who couldn't shop at thrift stores? Don't tell me you kids can't afford to shop at regular clothing shops when you're typing away on a computer with internet access. Thrifting has always been a, let's say, "sport" with people young and old, no matter what their income level. Sure, I could probably fork out the few hundred bucks for a sweater or pair of jeans, but you people know as well as I how awesome it is to go on a thrifting hunt and find the perfect top or pair of pants, or purse, or belt. And what's wrong with people buying things at goodwill, even if they can afford new clothing? Goodwill still gets their money, makes a profit, and inturn can offer more to the public. And if you think that's bad, what about all the "patchy mama's" who buy cord pants by the garbage bag full to make some patchpants or apron tops to sell? Are they too, taking away from the people who desperatley need to be clothed? Should they be attacked just like your "prep" friends? Oh no, because they're "hippies" right? So I guess that would probably make it ok.
Get over yourselves. Stop labeling people as "preps"-- there are pricks out there in every stereotype. Trust me, I know many "preps" who are way cooler and open minded than most people who wear "hippie" clothes.

 

I have to admit that our friend here is right. There are pricks in every walk of life. I, too, know some preps who are far cooler than some of the individualists i know. But, don't let it get you down. You are the better people for walking (scooting) away ( I probably would have had a few choice words for them when I was your age). But hey -- Karma always comes and bites you on the ass. They will get their's.

 

I never classified myself as a "hippie." No, I do not have my own computer. I am at a friend's house right now. I shop at thrift stores because I make less than minnmum wage busing tables. I never said there was anyhting wrong with in particular person shopping here or there. Attacked?- how did I attack them? I don't want to fight with you. I was just telling you a similar experience.

 

Tranquilaterfall-thanx, for the positive outlook. I'm not down about it. I could care less. But thanks for being optimistic.

I guess no one sees how my posts are sarcastic, but then again emotions are hard to tell throught the computer, where text and smilies are the only way of displaying that.